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So, if it’s a little creepy, then that means it’s a lot…dare I say it?…adorable. Right?

😉

I’ll be back after I read and/or reread the PM reviews, so as to actually get on topic here. But, since I’m off the reservation anyway…

Unrelated notes to Will: 1. Nice choice for this banner! 2. The movie I could not remember was Zombie Chronicles. The reason I couldn’t find it is because it wasn’t my first Todd Sheets movie; it was my first Brad Sykes movie. (Not having learned my lesson, my second is currently on as I type this.) Thus, while that particular hurdle has been cleared, Sheets is still lurking ahead of me…

I promptly exhausted my comments on the review itself. So much for me being back on track here.

Oh, actually, it just occurred to me that maybe Toulon wasn’t upset about Leech Woman’s fate in the second movie because he thought Elsa was reincarnated as Carolyn, and thus the puppet wasn’t needed anymore. Of course, then we get the conflict of “wife willingly having her soul placed in a puppet” and “wife being reincarnated,” so never mind. I still like the third one the best anyway. Really, it was inevitable that the puppets would become heroes at some point, since anyone who’s watching these things is doing it solely for that reason, and was probably rooting for them in the first place, even if they were murdering non-Nazis. I seem to recall them going back to being villains in Curse of the Puppet Master, but that movie was a dumpster fire with a stupid ending that they never bothered to resolve in a future installment (and hopefully make less stupid in doing so), so who cares?

Hi. As you may or not know, in “Gingerdead Man 2: Passion of the Crust,” Full Moon parodied themselves and their puppets with “Cheatum Studios” and its film franchise “Tiny Terrors.” So you may or may not find that of interest. 🙂

I lost it over “Perculator” [sic], the evil coffee pot. I thought that was the perfect send-up of Charles Band’s peculiar fetish. I think it would have been even funnier if he didn’t actually do anything, but just sat there and bubbled.

Obviously, a shared universe benefits from a common fictional setting like, random example, Haddonfield, Illinois, which isn’t just Michael Myers’ hometown but also the setting of the first one-third of anthology film “Body Bags” (1993) which featured an entirely different serial killer (IMHO Springwood, Ohio wouldn’t similarly qualify ’cause it’s all Freddie, all the time, no one else). “Dollman vs. Demonic Toys” (1993) mentions an apparently fictional town, Pahoota, California, so I guess there’s that.

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Obviously, a shared universe benefits from a common fictional setting like, random example, Haddonfield, Illinois, which isn’t just Michael Myers’ hometown but also the setting of the first one-third of anthology film “Body Bags” (1993) which featured an entirely different serial killer (IMHO Springwood, Ohio wouldn’t similarly qualify ’cause it’s all Freddie, all the time, no one else). “Dollman vs. Demonic Toys” (1993) mentions an apparently fictional town, Pahoota, California, so I guess there’s that.

I’m pretty sure SCOUT’S GUIDE TO THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE showed us a road sign that had Haddownfield, Illinois on it.

This really isn’t a horror movie; it’s more of an action movie with killer puppets as the good guys. Considering the way it completely rewrites things as presented in the first two movies, you may as well start with this one if you’ve not seen any entries in this series before. It being the best of the bunch doesn’t hurt, either. Nor does the fact that it officially introduces Six Shooter, who rivals Blade for best puppet in the franchise.